On 22/07/2021, Shawn Wagner <shawnw.mob...@gmail.com> wrote: > ed itself knows nothing about UTF-8, or character sets in general, as > far as I've seen poking around in the source. Your system regcomp() > and regexec() implementation presumably works with multibyte encodings > with an appropriate locale.
Aha, you're right, though getting it right portably will be a good game! M